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The transatlantic trade deal TTIP may be dead, but something worse is coming
- SubiculumCode 10y agothey will try and try and try until the people blink...and it takes just one blink.
- ruffrey 10y agoAs alluded to in the article: eternal vigilance is the cost of liberty
- cLeEOGPw 10y agoDoes it have to be true that they only have to succeed once? It feels like we need another set of laws in our constitutions to prevent it. Imagine a world where there's no constitution and no fundamental rights for people. Without it corporations would also constantly try to make deals to enslave citizens where the existing rules specifically doesn't forbid to. Same thing is with these trade deals, just different scale.
- _0ffh 10y agoThe problem is that these things are designed to stay on indefinitely, once ratified. Also, it builds on the most debilitating feature of government: There are only ever things added to it, almost never subtracted. The only realistic ways of achieving large scale government reform seem to be revolution (not necessarily bloody revolution) and losing a major war. But those come with their own downsides.